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Making Community Forests Work for Local and Indigenous Communities in the Central African Republic: Anthropological Perspectives on Strategies for Intervention MAKING COMMUNITY FORESTS WORK FOR LOCAL AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON STRATEGIES FOR INTERVENTION Robert E. Moïse in collaboration with Marjolaine Pichon May 2019 PART OF THE UNDER THE CANOPY SERIES CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS 1 GLOSSARY 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 1. INTRODUCTION 8 2. GOALS AND CHALLENGES OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY 12 3 WHY COMMUNITY FORESTRY EFFORTS HAVE FAILED TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS: THE CASE OF CAMEROON 15 4. CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS FOR COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN CAR 17 The Land: Customary Forest Management 17 The Historical Context: Relations between Bantu and indigenous peoples 20 The People: Customary Social Organisation 22 Politics: Decision-making, Leadership and Customary ‘Democracy’ 26 5. LEVERAGING CUSTOMARY INSTITUTIONS TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY FORESTRY 29 Promoting Sustainable Management 29 Making Community Forestry ‘Community-Friendly’ 31 Facilitating Sustainable Commercialisation 33 Protecting Indigenous Rights and Facilitating Indigenous Participation 34 6. AREAS REQUIRING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT 37 7. RECOMMENDATIONS 38 REFERENCES 40 LIST OF ACRONYMS CAR Central African Republic CdG Comité de Gestion (Management Committee) CSO Civil Society Organisation DfID Department for International Development (British government) DRC Democratic Republic of Congo FPIC Free, Prior and Informed Consent IP Indigenous People MEFP Maison de l’Enfant et de la Femme Pygmées NTFP Non-Timber Forest Product PA Protected Area RFUK Rainforest Foundation United Kingdom UNDRIP United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1 GLOSSARY Anthropological terms • Bayaka: also referred to as ‘Aka’, they are the most numerous of the three indigenous groups living in the forest areas of southwestern CAR. Since all our indigenous respondents were Bayaka, we also use it as a more general term for the indigenous peoples of the southwest. • Land-holding group: the collection of individuals who share access rights to a particular forest territory. Depending on how land tenure arrangements are handled in a particular area, the land- holding group may include: a single clan, a single village (comprising multiple clans and quartiers), or a group of villages. • Local community: The term ‘local community’ is often used in discourses on community forestry, but with very little precision about what it actually refers to. In this study, it is used to refer to the village, or group of villages, that share rights of access to a particular forest territory and who, by virtue of this fact, may seek official recognition of their rights to the resources in that territory through a community forest. • Quartier: a French term used to designate a particular ‘neighbourhood’ within a village. • Pygmy: the term commonly used by outsiders to refer to the indigenous inhabitants of the Congo Basin rainforest. Since it can be used in a pejorative sense, we refer to these groups with the term ‘indigenous’. Terms defined in the document « Concept and vision for community forestry in the Central African Republic », adopted by the CAR Forest ministry in 2010 • Indigenous and village community: population traditionally organised upon the basis of custom and united by bonds of solidarity based on clans and close kin, and which give it its internal cohesion. In addition, it is characterised by its attachment to a specific land. • Customary use rights: legally recognized rights for peoples living near a forest with a view to a free subsistence exploitation of forest products, except protected species. Customary use rights allow populations to practise gathering, subsistence hunting, traditional fishing, timber collecting and exploitation for individual or family usage. • Community forestry: every situation in which local and/or indigenous peoples are involved in the participatory management of forest resources. • Community forests: parts of the national forest estate which are subject to a management agreement between an organised and concerned village and/or indigenous community, on the one hand, and the government, represented by the Forest Administration, on the other. 2 The Rainforest Foundation UK: Making community forests work for local and indigenous communities - May 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the Central African Republic (CAR) is entering and implementing community forests with a a decisive phase that could lead to the allocation better understanding of the local milieu. This of the country’s first ‘pilot’ community forests, includes the goals of local people as they seek to the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and obtain and manage their community forests; their CAR civil society groups are supporting local customary institutions that are key to affecting communities in their application processes. the outcome; and the challenges that forest These pilots will also allow lessons to be learnt communities, especially indigenous peoples, and inform the revision of the legal framework, will most likely have to overcome. so that communities can officially manage and sustainably benefit from the forests they It is only by taking into account the milieu in have been preserving and depending on which community forest processes unfold that for generations. an alternative vision of community forestry can be developed and achieve its objectives: The failures of previous community forest i.e. sustainable forest management models initiatives in the Congo Basin should not be responding to the needs of forest communities viewed as proof that community forestry cannot and maintaining healthy subsistence economies, work in the region and should, therefore, be while preserving biodiversity and protecting the abandoned. Rather, critical analysis of past rights of indigenous peoples. Outlining such an experiences reveals the shortcomings of previous approach, and how it can work in practice, is a approaches and allows new approaches to be major goal of the present study. developed that can effectively realise larger policy goals, while simultaneously benefiting The analysis and the recommendations have local communities, governments, and the been developed based on anthropological forest environment. research with local communities in southwestern CAR – where the country’s indigenous peoples To offer community forestry a better chance of and tropical forests are concentrated – as well success in CAR, this study intends to contribute as on lessons learned in the Congo Basin to the national discussion by providing policy- more widely. makers and other actors involved in designing Photo credit: Robert Moise 3 GOALS, BENEFITS, AND CHALLENGES FOR Other challenges include the complexity of the administrative process which must be followed COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN CAR by communities in order to obtain a community forest, as well as the potential opposition of more In a context where the rights of forest peoples politically influential third parties who may try are being infringed upon by a variety of actors – to obstruct community forest initiatives. These protected areas, loggers, miners, and commercial are even more pressing issues for indigenous hunters, whether holding a concession or peoples who, due to their lower social status carrying out an illegal trade – the primary goal and levels of literacy, may have more difficulties expressed by local communities during the going through the meandering of modern research is to return to a situation of ‘local forests bureaucracies, and to meaningfully participate for local people’. They see community forestry in decision-making processes to negotiate as an official means of doing so – a kind of ‘social their agenda. contract’ with the government that would allow them to regain control over the management of their forests – for example, by undertaking UNDERSTANDING THE PEOPLE: surveillance activities to regulate third parties’ BANTU-INDIGENOUS RELATIONS access to their territories in order to prevent over- exploitation and the depletion of forest resources. Anthropological evidence indicates that Bantu This official recognition would also help create and indigenous peoples have been sharing forest networks for support to develop livelihood areas in the Congo Basin for several thousand initiatives, such as the commercialisation of Non- years. If their relationship appears to have been Timber Forest Products (NTFPs). one of relative equality during the early period, over time Bantu became more occupied with For the local and national authorities, the the spheres of political power, warfare, and allocation of community forests will present the the emerging forms of wealth. Although they advantage of ‘delegating’ forest management placed a high value on the forest knowledge to the actors who have the most vested of indigenous groups and on the forest-related interests in the preservation of resources – i.e. goods and services they provided, the Bayaka the local communities who rely on them for later came to occupy a subordinate position. their livelihoods. In addition, provisions for community forestry demonstrate the political Today, despite various forms of collaboration will to meet the State’s commitment to the that have been maintained between the two principles of sustainable development and populations, marginalisation and human rights forest management, as enshrined in the CAR abuses remain a significant part of daily life for Forest Code and other national and international most indigenous peoples. agreements. The Bayaka (indigenous) people interviewed There
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